Barack Obama, for unlike Clinton, he speaks of improving the relationship with South-America. This has been neglected the past couple of years. He publically stated that there is not one South-American president he wouldn’t speak to, even Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro.

What is your image of Holland?

A girl with a pointy hat and a dress, in a field of tulips.

What national politician would you like to interview?

President Evo Morales, because I would like to get to know the person who theoretically wasn’t prepared to be president. Someone who doesn’t even have a bachelor’s degree but who is now president of a country in deep political, social and economical crisis.

What national trait would you expoert to the rest of the world?

The plainness of our people, without being huble. This makes us open-minded to every person, everywhere.

What national trait would you like to eliminate?

Racism, because it stops us from living in harmony and it hampers our development. Racism seeps its way into everything.

What will you be doing in ten years?

I would love to make a lot of movies in Bolivia and travel around the world.

Cops

In Holland, the cops are your best friends. Well, at least that’s what we are told, but what does the rest of the world think about the police? Read more...

Cops

April 9, 2008

In Holland, the cops are your best friends. Well, at least that’s what we are told, but what does the rest of the world think about the police? The correspondents of Metropolis find out for themselves as they walk the beat with a cop for one day in twelve different spots in the world.

In Congo we see how heavily armed policemen guard a U.N. ambulance from an angry mob. In Sierra Leone people lack respect for the police as well: our correspondent reports that this is mainly a result of the corruption in the police force. And as we see in video-footage of police aggression shot by the organization I-Witness, we find out that in America the police are not always your best friend.

We encounter more respect in Israel, were we follow a member of a highly appreciated bomb squad. And in Central America, the narcotics brigade has certainly won the respect of at least two people. Our correspondent in Nicaragua comes face to face with two drug dealers who have just been busted by undercover agents with more than 3,000 pounds of pure cocaine.